I‘ve decided I like her, better than I like him. The “her” is Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, the feisty one who pointed a finger directly in the face of the president of the United States as she gave him a piece of her mind.
The “him” is said president.
Brewer is the governor who signed Arizona’s SB 1070 into law, which made her a villain, a bigot and darned near the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan among America’s left-wingers and open-borders crowd.
And if she’s all those things to them, she’d better darned well be a hero to us.
Obama is the ultra-left-wing president who sometimes tries to hoodwink those of us who know better — that would be those of us who didn’t vote for him and never will â into believing that he’s some sort of moderate.
Obama is the guy who tries to pretend he’s tough on illegal immigration, while chiding us for having a “broken” immigration system and making it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens.
And he’s also the man who believes the horrendous 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision is nothing less than God’s 11th commandment. I wouldn’t be surprised if he genuflects every time he hears the phrase “Roe v. Wade,” but that’s fodder for another column.
The fodder for this one is what happened between Brewer and Obama on the tarmac at the Phoenix-Mesa Airport on Jan. 25. Brewer met Obama to hand him a letter and to request another private meeting with the president, according to ABC News.
Obama answered that he didn’t appreciate Brewer’s account of a meeting she and her staff had with Obama at the White House.
The account in her book, “Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border,” wasn’t an accurate description of the meeting, according to the president.
Based on the title of Brewer’s book, I’m inclined to believe the version of events she describes in “Scorpions,” but I must confess to more than a little bias here. (Yeah, it’s that Roe v. Wade thing mentioned above.)
According to Brewer, White House staffers treated Brewer and her staffers “coldly,” weren’t allowed to take photos in a holding area just outside the Oval Office and had to hand over their cameras and cell phones to Secret Service agents.
You know those Arizona Republicans: Real terrorist types.
The line from Brewer’s book about what happened is an absolute corker, just one of the many reasons I like her better than I like him: “Too bad we weren’t illegal aliens, or we could have sued them.”
If Brewer and her staff were illegal aliens, they could have sued the Obama administration and won. Heck, the Obama administration would have helped Brewer.
Instead, it was the Obama administration that tried to bust the hump of Brewer, her staff, the state legislature and every Arizona resident that believes in the rule of law.
Obama had his Attorney General Eric Holder haul the state of Arizona into federal court over SB 1070. There is room for debate about whether SB 1070 comports with federal law or violates it.
But Maryland passed a law several years ago that allows illegal immigrants to renew their state drivers’ licenses, a flagrant and arrogant violation of the federal Real I.D. Act.
Holder hasn’t hauled Maryland into court, and his boss hasn’t ordered him to. Brewer may have been discussing her book with Obama, but she could just as well have chided him for having the most brazenly politically partisan Department of Justice this nation has ever seen.
Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer-nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan.
